Jada Pinkett Smith

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Jada Pinkett-Smith's Red Table Talk begins with an indirect ... (ABC News)

Jada Pinkett Smith says her family has done "deep healing" since her husband Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock at this year's Academy Awards.

Will Smith was banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years and resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, after the March 27 ceremony in which he walked up on stage and slapped comedian Chris Rock who had made a joke about his wife – Jada Pinkett Smith. Beamed on a black background with white writing, there was a promise to address the scenario in a future episode. Red Table Talk is back for a fifth season, and episode one – the first since the Oscars ceremony in which Will Smith slapped Chris Rock – began by briefly referencing the incident.

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Here's How Jada Pinkett Smith Addressed the Oscars Slap During ... (Glamour)

"Red Table Talk" has returned for the first time since Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars. Here's how Jada Pinkett Smith addressed the controversy.

“Considering all that has happened in the last few weeks, the Smith family has been focusing on deep healing,” the statement said. Pinkett Smith echoed this sentiment during the fifth-season premiere of the Facebook Watch series. “Some of the discoveries around our healing will be shared at the table when the time calls.”

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Jada Pinkett Smith reveals her family is 'focusing on deep healing ... (ThePrint)

While presenting the best documentary feature award at the 2022 Oscars, Chris Rock made a joke about Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head. Rock said he ...

The Academy then moved up its meeting, where it banned Smith from its events for the next 10 years. Soon after the Academy’s statement, Smith resigned from his AMPAS membership and the Academy continued its investigation. “Considering all that has happened in the last few weeks, the Smith family has been focusing on deep healing.

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This is how Jada Pinkett Smith subtly addressed Will Smith slap ... (WION)

Now that Jada Pinkett Smith is back with her famed 'Red Table Talk', all eyes were on the first episode of season 5 as people were anticipating that the ...

Until then the table will continue offering itself to powerful, inspiring and healing testimonies like that of our incredibly impressive first guest." She mentioned it only on title cards but not during the episode. Will Smith’s wife-actress Jada Pinkett Smith made a brief reference to her husband’s Oscars outburst.

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Jada Pinkett Smith (kind of) addresses the slap in 'Red Table Talk ... (CNN)

The Facebook series made brief reference to her husband Will Smith's Oscars slap at the top of the latest episode, but only on title cards. It was not talked ...

After the title cards were shown, the show continued with a pre-taped segment that was filmed before the Oscars on March 27. "Until then the table will continue offering itself to powerful, inspiring and healing testimonies like that of our incredibly impressive first guest." "Some of the discoveries around our healing will be shared at the table when the time calls.

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Jada Pinkett Smith says her family is focused on 'deep healing' after ... (NPR)

She briefly referenced her husband's Academy Awards outburst, telling viewers of her talk show that the family is "focused on deep healing."

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Jada Pinkett Smith's 'Red Table Talk' season 5 opening says the Smith family is in 'deep healing' after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars and was ...

And that meant the world to me," Haddish said after the Oscars. "And maybe the world might not like how it went down, but for me, it was the most beautiful thing I ever seen because it made me believe that there are still men out there that love and care about their women, their wives." "The 94th Oscars were meant to be a celebration of the many individuals in our community who did incredible work this past year; however, those moments were overshadowed by the unacceptable and harmful behavior we saw Mr. Smith exhibit on stage," the Academy said in a statement announcing Smith's ban. "Considering all that has happened in the last few weeks, the Smith family has been focusing on deep healing," the actress wrote in the season 5 premiere's title card, which appeared on screen before Pinkett Smith, daughter Willow Smith, and mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris interviewed performer and Moonlight star Janelle Monáe. "Some of the discoveries around our healing will be shared at the table when the time calls.

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